Combined truck and shovel.



No. 771,134. PATENTED SEPT. 27, 1904 F. ERIGKSON.

COMBINED TRUCK AND SHOVEL.

APPLIOATION FILED JAN.16, 1904.

no MODEL.

FRANK ERIGKSON, OF

Patented September 27, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

EVELETH, MINNESOTA.

COMBINED TRUCK AND, SHOVEL.

SPECIFICATIONfor-ming part of Letters Patent No. 771,134, datedSeptember 27', 1904.

' Application filed January 16, 1904. Serial No, 189,298. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK ERICKSON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Eveleth, in the county of St. Louis and State of Minnesota,have invented certain new and useful Im provcments in a Combined Truckand Shovel, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in a device to be used forhandlingor transferring all kinds of grain, potatoes, hard coal, sand,gravel, lime, and other material from one point to another, andisespecially adapted for use-in loading and unloading cars at docks; andit consists in certain peculiarities of the construction, novelarrangement, and operation of the various parts thereof, as will behereinafter more fully set forth and specifically claimed.

The principal object of the invention is to provide a combined truck andshovel or scoop to be used for the above-named purposes which shall besimple and inexpensive in construction, strong and durable, and so madeas to facilitate the operation of moving grain, coal, and the like.

Another object is to construct the device in such a manner that it canbe used for quickly moving the material from one point to anothernearby, (as when an ordinary shovel is employed,) or it may be used forconveying the material to a more distant point, where it can beautomatically dumped.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will be disclosed in thesubjoined descrip-. tion and explanation.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my inventionpertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe it,referringto the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a view inside elevation of a combined truck and shovel embodying my invention,showing the parts in the positions they will assume when the device isbeing used for scooping up the material. Fig. 2 is a view, partly inelevation and partly in section, showing the scoop or shovel raised andthe parts in position for trundling the load of material carriedthereby. Fig. 3 is a view in side elevation, showing the parts in thepositions they i will assume when the load is being dumped from theshovel, and Fig. 4 is a view, partly in section and partly in elevation,taken'on line 4.4 of Fig. 2 looking in the direction indicated by thearrows, showing the truckframe lowered.

sponding parts throughout the different views of the drawings.

The shovel or scoop may be made of any suitable size, form, andmaterial, but preferably of sheet metal, and substantially triangular incross-section, as is clearly shown in the different views of thedrawings-that is to say, it comprises a receptacle having the front 11and rear portion 12, forming its bottom, at an angle to each other.Secured to the sides of the portions 11 and 12 are upwardly-extendingsides 13 and 14, which may be made integral with the front portion ofthe bottom of the shovel or scoop and secured to upturned flanges 15 onthe rear portion 12 of the bottom by means of rivets 16 or otherwise.The shovel is mounted near the apex or angle of itsbottom on the axle 17of the truck-frame, which comprises two parallel side pieces 18, havingat their upper ends handles 19, by means of which the device ispropelled or operated. The sides 18 of the truck-frame are securedtogether by transversely-extending tie-rods 20 and a brace-bar 21, whichalso extends crosswise of the truck-frame and depends downwardlytherefrom, so as to form a check to restrict the rearward movement ofthe shovel. Extending from one of the sides 18 of the truck-frame to theother and located just above the brace-bar 21 is a rod 22, on which isnon-rotatably mounted near each of its ends, but usually between theside pieces 18, a dog or detent 23 to engage the recesses 24 in theupper rear portion of the sides 13 and 14 of the shovel. Looselyconnected at one of its ends to one of the dogs or detents 23 is areleasing-rod 24, which is loosely supported on one of the sides 18 ofthe truck-frame by means of a guide-ring 25 and has its other end curvedto form a handle 26, by means of which it may be moved toward one of thehandles 19 of the truck-frame, thus disengaging the dogs 23 from therecesses Like numerals of reference refer to correin the shovel. Mountedon each end of the axle 17 is a wheel 27 of any suitable size andmaterial.

From the foregoing and by reference to the drawings it will be readilyseen and clearly understood that by placing the parts in about thepositions shown in Fig. 1 the shovel may be pushed forward, so as toscoop up or load the same with grain or other material, when thetruck-framemay be raised to about a vertical position, at which time thedogs 23 will engage the catches 24 in the rear upper portion of theshovel, when by again turning or lowering the truck-frame to about theposition shown in Fig. 2 it is apparent that the load carried by theshovel may be trundled to a point more or less distant from thereceiving-point and there automatically dumped by simply releasing thedogs 23 from the recesses 24 in the shovel, which may be done by movingthe releasing-rod 24 toward one of the handles 19 of the truck-frame.

By reference to Fig. 2 of the drawings it will be seen that the shovel10 is non-rotatably secured on the axle 17 by means of straps 28, whichare located near the'sides of the shovel and are secured at their endsto the front and rear portions of its bottom, thus ex tending partiallyaround the axle, which at this point is usually rectangular incross-section.

By reference to the drawings it will be seen that the front portion ofthe bottom of the shovel is longer than the rear portion thereof andthat when the dogs 23 are released from the shovel the front portion ofthe same will overbalance the rear portion, thus causing it to dumpautomatically.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination with atruck, of a shovel angular in form and mountednear its angle on the axle of the truck, a brace-bar transverselylocated on the truckframe and depending from the lower surface thereofbetween'its sides to restrict the rearward movement of the shovel, a dogpivotally mounted on the truck-frame above said bar to engage the rearportion of the shovel, and a releasing-rod movably mounted on the truclframe and loosely connected at one of its ends to said dog,substantially as described.

2. The combination with a truck-frame, of an axle mounted on its lowerend, and having angular portions near its ends, wheels rotatably mountedon the ends of the axle, a shovel angular in form and mounted near itsangle on the axle of the truck, straps having angular bends to receivethe angular portions of the axle and secured to the lower surface of theshovel, a brace-bar transversely located on the truck-frame anddepending from the lower surface thereof between its sides to restrictthe rearward movement of the shovel, a rod transversely located onthe-truck-frame above said bar, a dog mounted on said rod near each ofits ends to engage the rear portion of the shovel, and a releasing-rodconnected at one of its ends to one of the dogs and loosely mounted onthe truck-frame, substantially as described.

FRANK ERICKSON.

Witnesses:

JOHN J. N'EURUIK, WILLIAM JOHNSON.

